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Fair enough. Removing them as an option for Work is fine going forward (I think Work doesn't need changes beyond that). You, uh, actually already wrote up that specific list of Research options already other than Sword Stepping (found here), which is why they were reprised. I guess we can call them a freebie or something and use actual actions for Research in the future? Or just leave them costing Work this turn but remove that as an option going forward?
Like, I can remove them from the plan, but you already gave us that info so...
That said, there are some things that currently fall under Research that seem like they would not ever be worth an action and should maybe be Work. Specifically, checking if Alloys work and examining the one-off magic items that we've acquired from our Wizard-Owl. I dunno what we'd call those, but while things like learning languages and making armor and doing whole Soulscape things are totally worth actions "Do X and Y make an Alloy?" or similar things that should take maybe 5 minutes to check and maybe a sentence or two to write costing a full action seems...excessive. Maybe have those cost Work but be limited to 1 per turn?
Adding an option something like the following to Work (replacing Research) seems reasonable:
-Proof of Concept (Make a quick check of how two magical things interact, most obviously this allows checking if an Alloy works, though it'd also allow checking unknown magic items and how they work and similar things. Can only be done once per turn).
Would that work? Because given our other stuff I dunno if we're ever gonna get through our Items still in need of Research or make new Alloys if we can't do this or something like it. Something for gathering basic info on people would also be nice (a use of Work to gossip!) but I can see that being a lot more of an issue to write.
Oh, and looking back over Work, this is too expensive. Most Seeresses would be literally incapable of paying this at all given the amount of Work most people get (unless they all have, like, Labor 7 and a Trick or shapeshifting to help, which seems off thematically). It being 3 Work still means that most people can only manage one or two seidr-related things a turn (and even Halla abusing shapeshifting and Infusion would be limited to, like, 4-6 at most). If 3 is too low, 6 would also work (capping most seeresses at 1 and Halla at maybe 2-3), but 9 is just too high to be workable in-universe, IMO.
I also still had these questions, @Imperial Fister:
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